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b) Under Article 38 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 and Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1164/94, "Member States shall take responsibility in the first instance for the financial control of assistance", in particular by:

The Commission considers that these rules allow its obligations concerning the implementation of the budget to be reconciled with the specific features of the Union's cohesion policy and its management system which, under the Council Regulations, make the Member States responsible in the first instance for the management, monitoring and day-to-day financial control of the resources of the Funds.

Application of the financial corrections to the beneficiaries of the Funds who do not comply with the conditions governing the grant from the Structural Funds is primarily a matter for the Member States, who will deduct the expenditure concerned from the declarations to the Structural Funds.

My argument is equally based on the statement that I think very much reflected what the public wanted to hear very sincerely, the high-level statements by the heads of government and state that nuclear weapons should be weapons of last resort in the post-Cold War, not the weapons of first resort or potentially weapons of first resort.

(16) It is essential that decisions on all applications for international protection be taken on the basis of the facts and, in the first instance, by authorities whose personnel has the appropriate knowledge and receives the necessary training in the field of asylum and refugee matters.

‘determining authority’ means any quasi-judicial or administrative body in a Member State responsible for examining applications for international protection and competent to take decisions at first instance in such cases, subject to Annex I;

The Commission considers that these rules allow its obligations concerning the implementation of the budget to be reconciled with the specific features of the Union's cohesion policy and its management system which, under the Council Regulations, make the Member States responsible in the first instance for the management, monitoring and day-to-day financial control of the resources of the Funds.

In the first proposal each applicant for asylum coming to the EU would in principle have the opportunity to present his case in a personal interview before a first instance decision is taken by the authorities.

Now that we have come to the end of this year, the Commission proposes we should follow two paths in this field: the first is dealt with in my colleague, García-Margallo y Marfil’s report on the coordination of VAT administrative systems; the second is dealt with in this report, and seeks to put off any decision on the subject of VAT rate harmonisation until 2006.

1. Without prejudice to the Commission's responsibility for implementing the general budget of the European Communities, Member States shall take responsibility in the first instance for the financial control of assistance.

In its view, these rules allow its obligations regarding budget implementation to be reconciled with the specific features of the Union's cohesion policy and its management system. Under this system, according to the Council Regulations, the Member States are responsible in the first instance for managing, monitoring and day-to-day financial control of the resources disbursed by the Funds.

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